History and Meaning of Allege The term "allege" comes from the Latin word "allegare," which means "to bring forward as evidence." In the legal context, it is used to mean something that is claimed or asserted without proof. It is often used in the preliminary stages of a legal case w...
In Primus International Holding Company & Ors v Triumph Controls – UK Ltd & Anor [2020] EWCA Civ 1228, the Court of Appeal grappled with the proper interpretation of “goodwill” in a commercial contract, considering the natural meaning of “goodwill” in the commercial context and the defi...
Structuralism is based on the assumption that grammatical categories should be defined not in terms of meaning but in terms of distribution. and that the structure of each language should be described without refer ence to the alleged universality of such categories as tense, mood and parts of ...
The idea of ‘the given’ and its alleged problematic status as most famously articulated by Sellars (1956, 1981) continues to be at the center o
1) What do you think is the meaning of life? Some of us may get the answer when we are old and some of us may never get it during our lifetime. Finding the meaning of life is very important, especially for young people. People may have different answers to this question. For many...
the meaning of physicalism is clear enough: mental states are states of the body; mental events are physical events. We do not know which physical states and events they are, but that should not prevent us from understanding the hypothesis. What could be clearer than the words "is" and "...
that Hesperus (the evening star) and Phosphorus (the morning star, also known as Lucifer) are the same object (which nowadays we call Venus), but it is a mere tautology that Hesperus and Hesperus are the same object: changing the reference from Phosphorus to Hesperus changes the meaning. ...
Luther's early statements, such as that belief is a 'free work' and must not be coerced, gained crucial relevance in the juridical debates about the meaning of the Augsburg Peace of Religion in the empire. Christoph Besold was among those transforming the reformers' message into a legal ...
“attacked”, is to have a dubious connection to the meaning that flows behind words. A journalist should be criticised if the work produced is shoddy, since he or she is expected to present evidence and then to check that evidence and to even challenge it through due diligence, but in ...
For example, the English adjective "tall" is vague since it is not clearly true or false for someone of middling height. Ambiguity Doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation "leading a life of alleged moral ambiguity" (Anatole Broyard). Vagueness Not clear in meaning or expression; ...